The Berliner The Berliner is Berlin’s English-language magazine for culture and lifestyle, and Germany’s largest publication in English. Since its first issue came out in June 2002, The Berliner has grown to becom...

Odd. Here's the link anyway - www.eventbrite.de/o/the-berlin...

I'm leading two tours focusing on the history of Berlin's Jewish Community on June 1st. DM for details.

Pedro Pascal has heard it 🙏

IKEA Berlin going hard for that sex-positive €€€

Your instincts were correct

Me to my tour group: "So that was museum island. The enlightenment, the rise of the Prussian Kingdom, the birth of the Empire, the Republic, the Reich....its all here. Any questions?"

Midwest US lady: "When are you going to talk about immigration?"

It's a load of help, thank you

Is there a word in German for the joy and pleasure that one experiences as a result of someone else's misfortune and humiliation? 🤔

5 'Nicht Einsteigen' U12 trains in a row this morning. It's the hope that kills you.

Went on a guided tour yesterday with @berlintourguide.bsky.social
and loved seeing a side of Berlin that was just a bit different from the usual tours. Ryan’s expert knowledge and enthusiasm for the city, helped illustrate how different West Berlin was during the years of the Wall
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Little excerpts from my interview with George Nebieridze about his zine 'Powertool' which explores Berlin's feminist noise-punk scene.

Go buy the zine right now--->

nebieridze.bigcartel.com

How surprising that a historian of the DDR should post about the history of the DDR 🥴

German astronaut Alexander Gerst on the ISS with the Maus and Elefant in what seems like an homage to GDR cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn bringing Sandmännchen aboard his Interkosmos flight in 1978

"I've got news for you. Those weird people on the street — every hundredth weirdest one has a Steely Dan record at home."

- Walter Becker, 1981

'Thanks'

Corey Brooker doing his filibuster.

"There's nothing funny about Daphne & Celeste getting bottled offstage, it's an indictment of the violence of the audience and their complete intolerance for anything outside their rigidly masculine definition of acceptable music."

I can't wait to vote those CDU dickheads out next year but I have little faith in the SPD making things much better.

One United Power - Graffiti, gentrification, Berlin and some Dylan Thomas for the day that's in it

Operation Nemesis: Murder on the streets of Berlin — Whitlam's Berlin Tours On 15 March 1921, a single gunshot shattered the quiet of Hardenbergstraße near Berlin’s Zoo Station. Talaat Pasha, the man widely regarded as the architect of the Armenian Genocide, lay dead. His ass...

On this day in 1921, Talaat Pasha, one of the key figures behind the Armenian genocide, was murdered on the streets of Berlin by Soghomon Tehlirian.

The idea, part of "Operation Nemesis" was not just to take revenge, but to bring global attention to the genocide.

Find out more here 👇

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

LOL. Had me worried for a second.

When they see who?

Did you manage to do a runner before the rozzers arrived?

On Germany and techno

On Germany's strict abortion rules

Absolutely

Has anyone done a deep dive into Marxist tendencies in the lyrics of Steely Dan, and if so can someone point me in its direction?

Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:

Cocaine, fascists etc